Tasks
The main tasks a dynamic recompiler has to perform are:
- Reading in machine code from the source platform
- Emitting machine code for the target platform
A dynamic recompiler may also perform some auxiliary tasks:
- Managing a cache of recompiled code
- Updating of elapsed cycle counts on platforms with cycle count registers
- Management of interrupt checking
- Providing an interface to virtualized support hardware for example a GPU
- Optimizing higher level code structures to run efficiently on the target hardware (see below)
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